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Like some other imperial visitors before them, including Ethiopia's late Emperor Haile Selassie and the Shah of Iran, Japan's Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako last week paid a call at that West Coast U.S. shrine, Disneyland. During their 90-minute visit at the vast fantasy park outside Los Angeles, the imperial couple chatted with a king-sized Mickey Mouse and watched a Bicentennial parade. What interested the Emperor most? Disneyland's diorama of primeval life in the Grand Canyon, depicting a variety of prehistoric animals-all of which seemed far more familiar...
...true that the area may end up looking very nice, but it won't be a neighborhood where ordinary working folk can afford to live. What's more the area won't even be a neighborhood anymore. It will become a kind of shrine to a lifestyle for those who think that a world where "the Lowells talk only to Cabots, and the Cabots only to God" is a good one. I mean, whoever heard of the Beacon Hill Little League or the Louisburg Square Women's bowling night...
...true that the area may and up looking very nice, but it won't be a neighborhood where ordinary working folk can afford to live. What's more the area won't even be a neighborhood anymore. It will become a kind of shrine to a lifestyle for those who think that a world where "the Lowells talk only to Cabots, and the Cabots only to God" is a good one. I mean, whoever heard of the Beacom Hill Little league or the Louisberg Square Women's bowling night...
...brings his own. On a tour of the Middle East last week, the Massachusetts Senator guided an entourage that included his wife Joan, daughter Kara, sisters Jean Smith and Pat Lawford, and her daughter Victoria. Sandwiched into their 6 a.m.-to-midnight schedule was a visit to the religious shrine in Meshed, Iran, where the women donned the hooded black robes required for entry into Moslem holy places. Elsewhere, however, there was less tourism and more talk of politics. How would Kennedy respond to a presidential draft at the Democratic Convention? asked one Iranian student. The Senator paused, reached into...
...while the people of Kathmandu do make frequent, if not daily, visits to a shrine. Kathmandu is not a city of ascetics. Although the people are poor, the poverty is not nearly as bad as in neighboring India where one can find a million starving beggars in the streets of Bombay or Delhi. While the average Nepalese is lucky to make 150 to 200 rupees ($15-20) a month, there is no mass starvation because of recent good monsoon years and the extensive rice cultivation both in the Valley of Nepal and the lowlands. While the full brunt...